Contrary to popular belief, Pandas don’t just eat bamboo, they also eat local search sites. My post on Yellow Pages SEO in the Post-Panda World is now live on SEL.
Yellow Pages SEO After the Panda Update
Andrew Shotland
April 18th, 2011
12 Comments
Tags: Google · Yellow Pages
12 responses so far ↓
1 Jordan
It’s definitely hitting all yellow pages sites hard. Perhaps they’ll re-evaluate their content now instead of dishing out millions of pages with listings.
2 Carroll B. Merriman
Between me and my husband we’ve had more problems than I can count but, the last few years I’ve settled down to one line of players. Why? Because I was happy to discover how well-designed and fun to use the underappreciated (and widely mocked) they are.
3 Chris Reilly
Do you care to speculate about what this means for CityGrid? Do you think it will remain viable on its own without a lot of GOOG search traffic to rely upon?
4 Andrew Shotland
One of the main strategies of CityGrid was to reduce CitySearch’s reliance on Google. That said I am sure a number of CG distribution partners got knocked down as a result of Panda but I would guess that overall they had just as many partner sites gain, so probably no change for them.
5 Sevente Selman
I keep hearing about this panda update. Interested to know more.
6 Paul Gunter
I agree with you Jordan. There are too many sites like Yell with countless pages without any focus on providing good quality content.
This is a good example of big companies not future proofing their SEO.
7 Steve
Panda is certainly having an effect on hotel sites that are part of a chain. It’s not uncommon for content to be scraped and republished on many sites across the web.
8 Dennis
Panda Update also hit websites that doesn’t have dupe content.. I dont think the bot is able to determine which content is duplicate.. I have experienced it on one of my sites.. I already conceded that i will no t be able to make money on this site after a year of work so stop working on it. but after panda it on the top 3 position for a keyword “Buy” based with over a 100k monthly searches
9 Sam Smith
I’ve been trying to get updated on the Panda update. Can you some explain what exactly happened? I know a lot of sites got hit hard but just trying to learn as much as possible. Thanks!
10 Sean McCracken
Panda update? Let everyone else.. I keep hearing about it.. But what does it have to do with SEO?
11 Adam C
I just really have not seen much of an effect personally from Panda. The only thing I have noticed is a few well built directories in my area have jumped in the serps a little.
12 Clark Smith
I haven’t really noticed any changes on Panda, I think it mainly has to do with websites that are using spam techniques to get links and are trying to eliminate those low quality links.
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